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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Equivocation \E*quiv`o*ca"tion\, n.
The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification,
with a purpose to mislead.
There being no room for equivocations, there is no need
of distinctions. --Locke.
Syn: Prevarication; ambiguity; shuffling; evasion; guibbling.
See {Equivocal}, a., and {Prevaricate}, v. i.
资料来源 : WordNet®
equivocation
n 1: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly
avoids an unpleasant truth [syn: {evasion}]
2: intentionally vague or ambiguous [syn: {prevarication}, {evasiveness}]
3: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language [syn:
{tergiversation}]